warning: filename ends with '.', which is not allowed on Windows: 'tools/test/sort/bigtest/q-1.024.003.'

[Allan Jude]

On 2014-03-07 18:12, Eitan Adler wrote:
> On 7 March 2014 13:50, Rui Paulo <rpaulo at felyko.com> wrote:
>> On 7 Mar 2014, at 10:38, David Chisnall <theraven at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 7 Mar 2014, at 16:41, Rui Paulo <rpaulo at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 6 Mar 2014, at 23:30, David Xu <davidxu at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>>>> it seems filename ended with a dot is illegal on Windows, if someone
>>>>> wants to check out freebsd source code on Windows, it will be a problem.
>>>>
>>>> Is this something we want to support?
>>>
>>> Yes, definitely.  Building FreeBSD on other platforms is one of the requests we get very often from embedded systems vendors.  Cheap virtualisation has made it less urgent (they can just stick a FreeBSD VirtualBox VM on their workstations), but it's definitely something we'd like eventually.  To my knowledge, no one is working on it, but we should aim to make life easy for whoever does...
>>
>> I guess I should clarify: I wasn’t talking about cross building in general, but specifically on Windows.  It’s far easier to setup a case-sensitive file system on OS X and cross build FreeBSD from there than it is on Windows.
> 
> Over 50% of the people that come to FreeBSD.org run windows.  If it is
> possible to support building on windows, we should try.
> 

Even well shy of 'building' on windows, I do most of my docs work on
windows. I even wrote most of the new code for bsdinstall on a windows
machine. Being able to checkout the svn tree and work on it on my
existing work station is nice.

-- 
Allan Jude

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